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ANNUAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
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Staff of the Public Health Department 1
SECTION A
Statistics and Social Conditions
(1) General Statistics 2
(2) Social Conditions 2,3,4,5
(3) Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year:-
(a) Live Births 6
(b) Still Births 6
(c) Deaths - Total 7
(i) Death Rate - Total 7
(ii) Maternal Death Rate 7
(iii) Infant Death Rate - Quinquennial Infant
Mortality Rate - Causes of Death of
Children under one year 7,8
(iv) Deaths from Other Causes 9
Introduction to Tables on Vital Statistics 9
Table I - Extracts from Vital Statistics for
years 1949 - 1953 inclusive 10
Table II - Comparison of Vital Statistics
1924 - 1953 11
Table III - Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Case
Rates for certain infectious
diseases in the year 1953 12
Table XV - Causes of Death 13
SECTION B
General Provisions of Health Services
(1) (i) Public Health Officers 14
(iij Laboratory Facilities 14
(iii) Ambulance Facilities 14
(iv) Hospitals
(a) Infectious Diseases 14,15
(b) Smallpox 15
(c) General 15
(2) National Assistance Act, 1948 15
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951 15
SECTION C
Sanitary Circumstances
(l) Water Supply 16
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 16
(3) Rivers and Streams 16
(4) Closet Accommodation 16
(5) Public Cleansing 17
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area 17,18
(7) Shops 18
(8) Factories Act, 1937 18,19
(9) Camping Sites 19